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Podcast: Ultrarunning History
Episode: 41: Around the World on Foot – Part 4 – The Bizarre
Description: By Davy Crockett
Before returning to more serious ultrarunning history, three more “around the world on foot” tales must be told. These stories are so bizarre that they are hard to believe, but they did happen. These individuals gave up years of their lives to gather attention by walking thousands of miles enduring much hardship. Eventually as world conflict exploded into World War I, much of what the public thought was nonsense, disappeared for a time.
These three stories involved a “masked walker,” an English man who tried to walk around the world in an iron mask. Also, an Austrian man who t...